cvs commit: hugs98 Makefile hugs98.spec

[Ross Paterson]

On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 11:13:59AM +0100, Alastair Reid wrote:
> This reminds me: what are we going to use as the default path?
> 
> We could use the old path (lib, lib/exts, lib/hugs) but then people
> don't see the new stuff.
> 
> We could use the new path (libraries, oldlibs) but then runhugs
> doesn't work (it needs HugsDynamic).
> 
> We could use both (libraries, oldlibs, lib, lib/exts, lib/hugs) but
> then a number of things report having duplicate instances for Int.
> (I think this comes from the Int module itself).

Yes, using both won't work (duplicate instances, ambiguous references).
I use

	-P{Hugs}/libraries:{Hugs}/oldlib:{Hugs}/lib/hugs

and that seems to provide both old and new interfaces.  (In your example,
lib/hugs/HugsDynamic brings in oldlib/IOExts, which is a wrapper around
libraries stuff.)  However I don't think this has had wide enough use to
trust as the default in this release, so I'd suggest leaving the default
path unchanged and mentioning this alternative in the documentation
(but having both installed, so they can choose at run-time).